What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Greatness is its own torment.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.